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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

take it up q dyspeptic man does his dinner
and pick little here and there, as suits me. I
look a book in this way fer a day or
two, until other come in, and then the
girl takes il up stairs and I do not go after it.
This is my practice with the run of books. OF
course when a edition of a work by an old
friend, or the life of Of my former
life OF Lon -felow been a great delight
me. l find the life Of Lincoln, in the Century.
full of interest Il retreshes my old memories
Arc you writing nythine nowF
Not much; not much L have some verses
In preparation for the Atlantic; that IS all worth
mentioning / am too old to write as used to
do. There is no use in letting the world know
about il, | think
"You think Tennyson has hurt his reputa-
tion by his later poetry"
Il do cot tell thee People ask me that
question often. Tennyson must judge for him
self. l do not pass censure upon him."
But you think his later verses inferior to
those of his manhood!'
Il am an old man and not qualified TO say"
The poet spoke of his approaching birthday
with pleasure He knew all about what his
friends intended do 1t was very kind Of
James Russell Lowell and James Boyle
OReily and Senator Hoar and Mr. Aldrich.
George W. Childs and the many other oil
friends 30 remember him. He was thankful.
What seemed to please him most. however
the proposed celebration OF '-Whittiers day" III
the Boston schools. He always loved children
If they thought enough of him TO read his no
full of happiness.
II hope to live to see the Whittier Memorial
which they want To issue in book FORM" said be-
'and then / will wait go. 1 cannot have many
more birthdays. I feel my race is nearly run.
l thank God 1 have lived SO long
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

metwith Democratic opposition, and were not
disposed of for nearly month. They reached
final vote on the 9Th of February. Twenty
five Democrats voted against them, and
among the rest Senator Lamar, whose NOM
ination to the Supreme Bench is now pending.
Thus it appears that fifteen years after the
close of the war Mr.. Lamar voted against
affirming the validity of the constitutional
amendments adopted to secure the results of
the war. The more his appointment as Su-
preme Judge is considered, the more unfit,
not tosay dangerous, it appears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

Hwang-ho. or Yellow river-after permanently
flooding large tract OF country are now leading
up to another grand catastrophe, by destroying
the banks of the new channel which they have
found for themselves Already the in
creased volume of water has added another
obstruction to those before existing TO the navi-
CATION OF the river by destroying large stone
bridge of arches at Tse-hohesn. town
situated 2lC miles from the mouth. the ruins of
which have seriously impeded the course of tho
stream. But the Hwang no is of little value for
navigation purposes. At its mouth lies bar
having at its deepest part about from seven to
nine feet of water only; further up. about three
miles below Tse-hoheen. there IS shoal
extending right across its bed. at the deepest
point of which there is about eleven feet OF water
while in the passage at the extremity OF the
sunken bridge at Tse-hobeen there is depth OF
only about five feet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

EX-SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, be-
lieves that the internal revenue system ought
to be preserved in perpetuitv. It would be
hard to find justification for this idea in the
teachings or presidents of the Democratic
party, which now opposes the abolition of the
system only because its maintenance is more
tolerable evil than the perpetuation of the
high protective tariff. When the tariff is
revised to peace basis and arranged to afford
all the revenues necessary for government
economically administered, the Internal
revenue system will have to go. The Demo
cratic party cannot be induced to support its
theory or to uphold it except in a choice be-
tween evils.-St. Louis Republican.
This is the true Democratic doctrine. They
now favor the retention of the internal revenue
simply to attack the tariff When that shall
be pared down as to admit enough foreign
made products to yield all the revenues
needed for the government, then the internal
tax will go. But they prefer at the present to
take two bites to their cherry; to go two steps
instead of one in striking down protection in
the tariff, and making it one for revenue
ouly,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

SECRETARY LAMAR was seen by the World
correspondent this evening. In relation to
the case of Macy, he said; I have never had
my attention drawn to this particular matter.
L have usually made it practice not to inter-
fere with my bureau chief, unless absolutely
necessary, for the reason that such proceed
ure if followed soon results in the complete
uprooting of the authority of subordinate Off
Gals
This respecting the Captain Macy case. The
reason Mr.. Lamar has never had his attention
called to this particular case is because he in
suited the committee of the Veterans Union
Association who came to see him respecting
it. Mr.. Lamar is very careful of the right $ and
prerogatives of his subordinates when the inter
ests of an ex-Union veteran are involved, but
when the interests OF land grant railways
were involved he was not so careful. He
could interfere with Mr.. Sparks to the extent
of demanding his resignation when the rail-
road ring wanted his interference, but when
wounded Union veteran, who had fought for
the government for four years, wanted his ear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

THE Farmers National Congress, which
lately met in Chicago in its seventh annual
session, with thirty States represented by
delegates appointed by their respective Gov
errors, passed the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the National Farmers
Congress demands OF the Congress of the
United States such legislation as will secure
to American agriculturists the exclusive priv
ilege of furnishing every product of American
soil which can be produced in sufficient guam
titles to supply American wants.
Resolved, That wool is one of such
products and this congress demands a pro-
gressive annual increase of duties on the i'm
portation Of foreign woods until wool growing
shall be made fairly remunerative, and
thereby in the near future secure for Ameri-
can wool-growers the American market and
increase the number of American sheep
sufficiently to supply American wants
Resolved, That American manufacturers
of WOODEN and worsted goods are essential to
the successful ana sufficient production of
American WOOL and this congress demands
for these manufacturers such additional pro-
tective legislation as will make them fairly
remunerative, and thereby in the near future
secure for them the American market and
enable them to supply all American wants"
This would indicate the position Of the
agriculturists of the United States upon the
question of industrial protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
A Legacy.

Friend of my many years
When the great silence falls. at last me,
Let me not leave to pain and sadden thee
A memory OF tears
But pleasant thoughts alone
Ot one who was thy friendships honored guest
And drank the wine of consolation pressed
From sorrows of thy
leave with thee a sense
or hands upheld and trials rendered less
The unselish joy which is to helpfulnesS
Its own great recompense;
The knowledge that from thine.
As from the garments of the Master. stole
Camness and strength the virtue which makes Whole
And heals without sign;
Yea. more, the assurance strong
That love- which fails of perfect utteraace here
Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere
With its immortal song
Last Poem by John G.. Whittier
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

CORRESPONDENT who has taken the
trouble to ascertain the financial standing of
the present Senate finds it is composed main
ly of poor or moderately well-to-do men. There
are not dozen Senators who can be reckoned
rich by the newspaper standard. There are
three or four millionaires-Don Cameron,
Payne of Ohio, and Sawyer, of Wisconsin
"a few others whose wealth runs into the
hundred thousands, but the majority are in
moderate circumstances. The correspondent
ran across Senators Voorhees, and Evarts
lunching in the Senate restaurant, and in
quired if the American Senate was really a
body of millionares and the creatures of cor
porations. "Millionaires." exclaimed Mr.
VOORHEES,, with sniff of indignation; " Idon't
believe that there is national legislature in
the world whose mem bers possess less money"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
The Treacherous Hwanc-Ho.

The Yellow river, which is reported as having
caused enormous loss OF life and property in two
provinces in China, has always been noted for
it's vast and destructive floods. which have from
time to time caused it to inundate the low-lying
country either side of its banks. According
to Chinese geographers, the Hwang-h no takes it's
rise tho Sea of Stars, the eastern side of
the Bayen-kara mountains, in the Monaghan
province of Kohonor, where it has gained for it
self the name of Ah-urh-tan, Golden river.
from the color of its waters For some miles
it runs in two streams. and when united takes
at first southeasterly course. Next, trending
in a northeasterly direction, it traverses the
province of Kan-suh and passes northward
through the Great Wall until it reaches the ris-
ing ground in the neigh borhood of the In shan.
Thence curving to the southeast and south,
1t re-enters China through tho Grea {
WALL and continues its sontherly course,
forming the boundary between the provinces of
Shen-se and Shan-se as far as Tung-kwan. Here
it makes sharp bend and runs nearly due east
to Kai-fung Foo. In the neighborhood Of this
city it enters on the great eastern plain of
China and the alterations which have taken
place in it's bed between this district and thu
sea have earned for it the wel-deserved title of
1.-The Sorrow of Honan." According to the Chi
nese records this portion of the river has
changed it's course nine times during the last
2. 500 years. and has emptied itself into the sea
at as many different tbs the most uortherly
of which is represented having been about
80 degrees latitude. or in the neiehborhood of
the present month of the Peiho, and the most
southerly being that which existed before the
last change in 1888, In "a degrees latitude.
The breaches thu. were made in the northern
bank CT the river east Of Kai-fung Foo during
the floods Of 1851, 1852 and 1853 caused its
waters gradually to overflow the low-lying
country to the northward; and these. after
spreading belt of country about
twelve miles in width. struck the bed Of the
Ia tsing river, and having forced their way into
the narrow, clean-cut channel, followed the
sea The result of this change has been that
the old course of tho river is dry. and that the
muddy dun-coiored waters-henoe tho name
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

statesman of the Jeffersonian simplicity
school. His sobriquet of the "Great OBJ
jector" fitted him. He objected to appropri-
atoms, with reason or without reason, oftener
without than with Il object" has been his
political stock in trade for generation past,
until many people have come to regard him
as q real economist and genuine reformer.
At last the light has been turned on and he is
exposed. As Rev. Joseph Cook said, in a
speech in New York, the other night, "You
can fool some of the people some of the time.
You can fool some people all the time; but
you can't fool all the people all the time"
Holnan's day of fooling the people is past.
His request to be excused from serving on the
appropriations committee where he could be
OF real service in keeping down expenditures,
shows that his whole career and record as an
economist are based on false pretenses. While
the Republican party had control he was
chronic objector to all appropriations, but
with his own party in power he becomes
mute. Intelligent Indianians have long
known that Holman was political fraud and
arrant demagogue. Now he stands before the
country exposed as such. Stripped of the
lions skin he appears in his true character.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

TODAY is the eightieth birthday of the
poet Whittier and in another column will be
found the last piece of verse from his pen.
1t is full of the spirit Of love for friends and
comes from the heart OF a man who possesses
''the peace which passeth understanding !"
Thousands to-day will express the hope that
the life of the great poet may be spared for as
many years as he can produce annually
one such graceful poem as the one we
print, and thus add to his fame and
the pleasure of his numberless ad-
mirers No sweeter singer has ever trod
the paths of poesy, no purer philanthropist
has ever held out helping hand to the OPP
pressed; and when on him ''the great silence
falls" there will be sense of loss like unto
that when Longfellow died. May his remain
ing years be peaceful as his long life has
been.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

EVERY dog has his day." says the old adage,
and the day of Pentecost is past-Pentecost,
The late preacher, we speak of, who has re-
signed his passionate and gone over to the An
hrchists, for whom he has expressed sympathy
In his sermons, and with whom he belongs.
He declares that he is not in harmony with
evangelical Christianity. 1t will have to
,tagger along without him, leaving him to the
tender mercies of the lawess gang with
which he now consorts. If he will remember
The proverb that silence is golden" and not
come near Chicago, where his tongue may get
aim into trouble, his life may be long but
It never will be useful Evangelical Christi
unity wishes him well.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

WATCH DOG oF-THE-TREAsURY HOLMAN
wants to be assigned to other duty this
season. The discovery that growlin at hun
CRY Democrats who want chance at the
surplus will injure his prospects presents his
duty in different light from that in which
he formerly viewed it. His confession of in
sincerity. however discloses nothing new to
the people of Indiana. They knew long ago
that his professions of excessive honesty were
piece of shallow humbuggery. Holman is
one of the biggest frauds Of the century
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

Mr.. O. .. STEALEY says the antics of the
mugwumps, who are trying to make them
selves believe that Higgins was bounced"
are very amusing. Speaking by authority, he
says: 1.-The Courier-I ournal correspondent is
perfectly cognizant of the fact that Mr.. Hig-
gins has been wanting to get out of the Treas
ury for six months and has only remained
there at the special request of the Secretary
OF the Treasury. Mr.. Higgins is a bright,
keen man, and his place is that will be
bard to Ell. The general opinion is that a
New York man will be appointed to fill the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
THE SALOON ACROSS THE BORDER,

A meeting held in New York few nights
ago, in favor of enforcing the Sunday-closing
law against saloons, was addressed by the
Mayor of Toronto. We are accustomed to
think of Canada as pretty slow country and
very conservative on questions Of this kind,
but they seem to have made considerable
progress in the direction of regulating the
liquor traffic. The Mayor said:
1--WE have taken from the municipalities
the power to issue licenses altogether The
government holds that power. and they ap-
point commission, who in turn appoint
officer to issue licenses and enforce the law.
The law provides that saloons must close at
o'clock on Saturday night, and not open again
till o'clock Monday morning. Another
law IS that no tavern-keeper can hold any
public position in the gift of the people or the
gift of the government. There is half the
victory! The tavern-keepers get out of the
business as quickly as they can, so that they
can hold office We have compulsory tenn
perance education in all our schools. A local
option act has been carried in sixty three
counties and cities in Canada and the result
of it is that, between the license law and the
local option, the amount of liquor used has
been reduced to threeand one-half gallons per
head, compared with thirteen gallons per
head in the United States"
There are several interesting points in this
brief statement. Our saloon-keepers com
plain because they have to close at IL o'clock
Saturday night and on Sunday. What would
they think of the Toronto o'clock law7 And
what would become of our Sim Coys and
other statesmen of his class under law for
bidding saloon-keepers to hold office? Very
interesting, too, is the testimony of the
Toronto Mayor to the result of stringent
license law and local control in Canada. The
people of this country have reached the con-
clusion that the saloon in politics must go,
but it will not be likely to go to Canada
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

Ok the 7th Of January, 1879, Senator Ed
munds offered resolution affirming the va
hdity of the thirteenth, fourteenth and if
ieenth amendments 20 the Constitution of the
United States, and the duty of Congress to
He prefaced the introduction of the resolutions
by remarking that that glad morning OF
The new year, when peace. and joy. and hope
we're everywhere, the resolutions would be
unanimously adopted. They were not. They
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
IT is a noteworthy fact that the triumph of

IT is a noteworthy fact that the triumph of
Democracy in the South is synony-
nous with the notification of the con-
stitutional amendments and the over
throw of republican government. Where
Democracy has full sway real liberty and
popular government do not exist. Grad
ually this fact will force itself into mems
minds. The great fact of slavery was no
more damning in character dangerous in
tendency, yet it took the American people a
good while to become sufficiently aroused to
do away with it. The overthrow of repub-
lican government and of popular suffrage in
the South by the Democratic party is having
its run, but it must also have its end. The
spirit of the times and the procession of the
ages are in an opposite direction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
Telephone Calls.
Business Oface-23S Editorial Rooms %

THE Sunday Journal for tomorrow viii be an
exceptionally interesting and readable number.
1t will have original stories and sketches and
poems. and contributions by Mrs. Lew Wallace.
Mrs. John A. Logan. Gen. Adam Badeau and
other writer's of national fame. besides the reg
Mar features of news, correspondence and mis-
cellany. The Sunday Journal stands at the
head. II VIII also contain personal talk with
Mr. James Whitcomb Riley about the noted
authors ne met at the recent convention and
reading in New York city,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

PERHAPS there never was so complete an
exposure and collapse of a political fraud
that of Congressman Holman, of this State.
1t is like the exposure of a spiritual medium"
when a match is suddenly struck and shows
the able-bodied operator doing the ghost act.
For long term of years Holman has been
posing before the country as an economist. a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

THE Lebanon Pioneer, owned and edited
By DR.. Harrison, of Insane Asylum fame, cen
sures the present State officers for their method
of handling the appropriation for the State
institutions, and adds: ''There seems to be
O studied effort on the part Of the Republican
party to injure the good results from these
institutions" Coming from DR.. Harrisops
this is one of the finest specimens of gall on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

GRANDPA JONES is not the only Demo
crat advocating appropriation for public
building. An astonishing number of citizens
from all parts of the country are at the capital
on similar errands if reports are to be be-
Iieved. If the United States Senate will just
stand aside and let the Democratic brethren
have all they want President Cleveland need
have no further anxiety about the surplus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

UNDER existing circumstances it may be az
well for sympathetic persons to retain rea-
sonable control of their emotions. So long as
each report of a new tumor in the Crown
Princes throat is contradicted next day. it
seems hardly worth while to give way to grief
until something official is known It is really
a waste of tears to shed them now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
Indiana's Only Presidential Quantity.

Indianapolis News.
Colonel Dudley is reported as saying that
there is in his belief only man who would
be seriously thought of if the opportunity
should arise for Indiana to name the Republican
presidential candidate, and that is General
Harrison. He ia eminently correct. There is
no other Indiana presidential quantity but him.
and he is quantity that any halfway decent
platform could add Indiana's fifteen electoral
to the Republican column. The disgust
ing. demoralizing and corrupt administration of
State affairs by the Democrats has shaken
that party hold that with an effort it can be
broken. 1t happens that General Harrison has
become the leader in assault ting this In the
last paign he did assault. himself for Sena-
tor as issue, Ia way that carried the Slate
for the Republicans, and only failed to carry the
Legislature because of the previous disfrauchise-
ment wrought by the Democratic 'redistrict-
ing robbery. The result was plainly that tha
State was against the Democrats. and with Har-
rison as the candidate it would 60 against them
again just as surely as they did not place him
on platform opposing reduction of the sur
plus by means Of reducing the tariff.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

THE ovation that John L. Sullivan is
receiving abroad seems to have stimulated
the ambition of local pugilists all over the
country. If we could have a revival of mus
sular training and physical development in
other directions than that of prize fighting,
it were altogether praiseworthy. but it hardly
seems desirable that we should become a
nation of sluggers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
The Abiest, Best and Cleanest

No Indiana Republican should neglect to read
the Indianapolis Journal the ablest, best and
cleanest publication in Indiana. If not in the
entire country 1t is unifor1nely excellent,
accurate and reliable in every department In
its columns the professional man. the business
man. the farmer and the mechanic. all alike find
the true ideal of daily paper. We suggest TO
every reader of the Herald 10 give its merits
and claims a careful consideration in selecting
their reading matter for the coming year. They
will find the Journal. whether the daily or the
weekly edition. just the paper they need.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17

Do you notice the way Virginia comes to
the support of the President on the tariff
question? You dont9 Well, neither does
lie; and he would like to know what the free
trade statesmen meant when they persuaded
him that his message just what the
people of the country were waiting for.